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Column as I see ’em …
It looks like Kentucky is on its way to doing something that should have been done decades ago: getting rid of the elected position of constable.
A report released last week by the Department of Criminal Justice Training was sort of a Capt. Obvious moment for many who already knew that the position is about as useless as a bucket without a bottom.
The report calls constables “irrelevant as an arm of law enforcement,” which is actually much kinder than the description I would have offered.

A mom and dad charged with selling marijuana to their 17-year-old son have pleaded guilty and were sentenced last Wednesday in Anderson Circuit Court.
Hershel and Karen Brown of 124 Dove Drive were both placed on four-year supervised diversion program, and Judge Charles Hickman ordered them to remain drug and alcohol free, not possess firearms and other restrictions during sentencing.
They were charged in August after police searched their residence and reported finding marijuana, hydrocodone, Oxyconton, cash and guns.

A Lawrenceburg man crashed a Chevy Tahoe into a Fox Creek Road residence early Monday afternoon and fled the scene of the accident.
According to Sheriff’s Office Deputy Tony Likens, 20-year-old driver John Ivey of 1497 Aaron Barnett Road was driving west into Lawrenceburg with a single passenger, 19-year-old Andrew Rittenberry, when Ivey lost control of his vehicle at the intersection of Fox Creek Road and Anderson City Road a little before 1 p.m. Monday afternoon.

A helicopter airlifted a female driver Monday afternoon after she struck a tree with her vehicle on Alton Road.
Charlotte Hall, 57, of Indiana, was transported via helicopter to the University of Kentucky hospital on Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. after sustaining non life-threatening injuries in a single-vehicle accident.
Officer Brian Wooldridge of the Sheriff’s Office said Hall, the sole passenger, lost control of her Chevrolet pick up while driving on the wet road.

The man charged with brutally murdering his landlord last year on Clay Burgin Road may use his own mental health in defending himself against the charge.
Terrance Cram, 50, is charged with killing Tena McNeely, 49 last January at her residence about 14 miles outside of Lawrenceburg.
According to documents filed in Anderson Circuit Court, Cram’s attorney plans to introduce “mental health evidence relating to the defense of extreme emotional disturbance.”

The Commonwealth Attorney’s office retracted a plea offer Wednesday for the woman charged with tying up her 3-year-old granddaughter for as many as 16 hours each day.
The girl’s grandmother, Carolyn Case, along with her parents, Rebecca and Herbert Medley, all are charged with first-degree criminal child abuse and have each pleaded not guilty.
Armed Wednesday in Anderson Circuit Court with their own public defenders, each appeared in front of Judge Charles Hickman and were expected to receive a plea deal from prosecutor David Nutgrass.

The Lawrenceburg man charged with 70 counts of possessing and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon in Anderson Circuit Court and could now face up to 20 years in prison.
Mark Hawks, 55, of Secretariat Drive entered his plea roughly 16 months after being indicted for downloading and viewing pornographic images of girls as young as 6 years old at his home and at his workplace in Shelbyville.

The mother of a suspected methamphetamine “smurf” out of jail on bond hauled her son into Anderson Circuit Court on Wednesday, then stood and watched as deputies hauled him off to jail.
Evan Cochran, 20, of Lawrenceburg was arrested in May along with four others on methamphetamine-related charges. Evans told arresting officer Jeremy Cornish of the Lawrenceburg Police Department that he was “smurfing,” a term used to describe those who purchase pseudoephedrine and other substances for others who manufacture meth.

The Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg boys' basketball team got on the winning track Saturday when the Rams whipped the Georgetown Home School group 65-40 on the academy's home floor. The Christian Academy defense limited Georgetown to 12 second half points after struggling through the first half.

“We handled them easily last season so it was a struggle to keep our players focused for this game,” Christian Academy coach Cory Robinson said.